Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-26
ras oRuoelsT'5 PECULIAR ORDERS

Curious Mistakes In Names Made by APP
plicants for Medicines.
A Cambridgeport druggist has made
practice for some years of saving in o
scrap book some of the most peculiar or
ders which he receives. Two are asked
for some rather strange things, he said
to the writer, ''but we can generally
guess what is wanted. Many people cx-
pect druggist to prescribe for their all
ments, as it saves physicians charges,
and the diagnoses Of complaints which
come to us are often amusing. Look at
these: Send me some of the essence you
put people to sleep with when you cut
their fingers Off. That evidently means
ether. i want something to take tobac-
co out of my mouth OF course the
scent of tobacco was the thing objected
to. Send me baby's top to O nursing
bottle means, without doubt, nursing
bottle top. sAn ounce Of the smelling
stuff that goes through your brain de-
scribes very well the effect Of inha1ing
ammonia. Something for sore baby's
eye is not easy to mistake, though stated
rather oddly, Here is startling order
for enough ipecac to throw up girl
4 years old. cannot help sympathiz-
ing with this person, who asks for
enough aniseseed to take the twist out Of
a dose Of scnna. Here is a request for
a plaster for q man kilt with stitches.
Perhaps the one who wrote this order
for something for caustic woman
built better than he knew Here is an
order for something for heavy pain in
the bones that is coming out through the
eyes. The persQp who wrote for some
thing to take a mans breath away did
not intend murder or suicide, but merely
wished for cardamom seed or something
of that nature. sent liniment to this
lady, who asked for something to rub
my old man with. Not bad descrip-
ton of poultice is the order for enough
haxseed to make a pudding for sore
toe. This child, who had IAN impress
sion on his heart and q cough that is
choking him in the neck, ought to have
been taken to a doctor, as well as this
other one who, his mother wrote, was
'heaving up and down and every way
Here is request for something to knock
a cold out of an old woman The next
one seems to be in hard condition. She
desires something for a woman who has
q bad cough and cannot cough No
druggist would hesitate for a minute to
I'LL this order: Something, forget the
name, but it is for a cure Our own
preparation win Just fill the bill in such
d case. But what should we send for q
.swelled woman's foot, "a man with q
dry spit on him and "a woman whose
appetite is loose on herr
I'VE got used to phonetic spelling,"
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seldom unable TO arrive at a fair con-
clusion Of what is wanted, even by the
blindest writers. Here are orders for
penny garick, parry garlic and paddy
garlic, which procured paregoric In each
case. These orders for barnegat, verg-
mount and bugmint were filed with
bergarnot; these requests for come ear
back, gum mare back, garmariback,
comearabacA and ram back called for
gum arabic; these asking for camher and
campfire meant camphor; worm me fuge
and barmafug meant yermifuge, Of
course; where our customers have called
for epicot, metick, epicack, apricot and
epicat we have delivered ipecacuanha;
the persons who wrote for honey Quintom,
blew oint, Annie Quintom and Ann
Grintom got unguentun1; otherwise
called blue ointment; orders for lOdnom,
lad mum and lord warm we filed with
laudanum: for balm of city we sent
speranaceti; those who wanted high
STRIPS got hive syrup; this fellow who
wrote for paint killer received pain killer:
knew that bubben wislxv meant bour-
bon whisky, that air root meant arrow
root, and that bitter Alice meant bitter
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